Press review of August 26th to September 1st, 2006. German newspapers talked a lot about the debate triggered last weekend by the idea of Wolfgang Tiefensee, federal minister of Transport, to have the long-term unemployed "patrol" in buses and trolley cars. Other important subject: the difficult reform of the law on joint management in the firm, which is celebrating its 30 years this year.
Job seekers transformed into “police officers”. In an interview in the weekly Focus, Wolfgang Tiefensee offered to send the « long-term unemployed in buses and trolley cars to ensure the order ». « This would trigger less costs and would reinforce security and services », judged the social-democrat minister (SPD), justifying her idea: « We are constantly looking for public interest jobs that job-seekers can perform ». According to the Berliner Zeitung, the minister’s proposal was extremely crit
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